Accomplice to the Villain Quotes

“I’m going to remove my sandals,” she warned, carefully moving to the ties going all the way up her calves. “Why are you telling me that?” “Because my ankles are about to be fully exposed, and I don’t want to give you a stroke.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“You’d be surprised how easy it is for some to ignore the problems of the world if they aren’t impacted by them.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“You aren’t hungry. You are in love, you emotionally stunted fool.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“The first to defy him was naturally the fucking frog.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“I won’t leave these people.” “Why?” Trystan yelled. “You don’t know them, and they wouldn’t do this for you.” Evie held his gaze, trapping him with her eyes. “I’m not doing this because of what they’d do. I’m doing it because it’s what I do.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“You have been my downfall, Evie Sage, and now I…I will be your undoing.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“Her eyes burned, and she sounded like a rusty door hinge when she said, “You love me?” His lips drifted closer, his eyes closing as his forehead pressed against hers, a rightness in every place they touched. “If that’s what this awful feeling in my chest is, if that’s why I can’t imagine my life without you, if that’s what love is—then yes, Evie. I love you so much it’s terrible.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“Oh, of course. Mediocre men receiving positions of power they haven’t earned because of their birthrights. How against the grain.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“And then she said it again. “I love you, Trystan, and there is nothing you can do to stop me.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“But any ailment of the heart could be ignored, or at the very least forgotten for a little while, when an open book sat before you, pages lined with nothing but new possibilities.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“Tatianna, I need you to look in on Bradley in our finance
department.”
Tatianna pouted and folded her arms. “Why?”
“He fell down the stairs.”
She gaped, tucking a braid behind her ear. “How?”
“I pushed him.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“Evie was well acquainted with awkward. They were old, dysfunctional friends.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“Everything I vowed when you betrayed me—that I’d never feel anything again—it was all useless against her. She weakened every defense you built. The moment I met her and every day since has been irritating, confusing, stifling, frustrating, maddening, and absolute chaos. You cannot say I am incapable of caring for others. I’ve broken every promise I’ve made to myself. I didn’t have a choice”—his voice shook with rage and pain and longing—“in loving her.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“My pathetic, tortured soul is in tatters, and unfortunately, it’s yours.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“And Trystan Maverine watched her, utterly, properly, and near hopelessly in love with her.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“I’d never. Even if all the magic in the land seeped from the ink on my skin and yours. If you’re hurt or in danger, I will find you. I swear it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“All I need to hear is that you love me. That you want this. Forever.” There was no hesitation in his voice when he said, “I want you. Forever.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“the world should always be wary of a king who boasts and instead pay attention to the misfits and outcasts. They usually had far more important things to say yet far less opportunity to say them.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“For a split second, they were not Villain nor Assistant nor Apprentice nor Accomplice. They were Trystan and Evie, exactly as they could’ve been in a different life, with rules that were fair and lives that were without pain, without struggles for power.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“Peaceful in sleep, and Evie fell in love with him all over again with a mere glance.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“The Villain leaned down and spoke quietly in Evie’s ear, his voice smoky
and dark. “I don’t need your books.” His dark gaze on her was a caress, a
finger running down her cheek. “I already have it.” It felt like a secret
confided and a bitter confession all rolled into one.
What in the deadlands? “You already have what?”
His eyes lingered on her face, dipping to her red lips. “Inspiration.”
Now, why does that seemingly ordinary word suddenly sound absolutely
filthy?
Probably because he’s saying it while staring at you like he wants to melt
your corset. And pathetically…it’s working.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“He had an apprentice. A furious, maddeningly frustrating, and disgustingly beautiful apprentice.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“It was like he was juggling a million different objects. And they were all on fire.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“It made him want to find every person who had made her feel less than remarkable and tear their eyelids off so they could get a better look at her.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“She laid her lips to his in answer, and the world turned into something new, something colorful again, something without pain, or worry, or betrayal. Just lips touching, just electric waves through her body, shooting straight for her pounding heart.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“The greatest power was bestowed to those who were brave enough to feel emotion and to do so thoroughly.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“A life without love is an empty one, Trystan. You can live your years without me, but not without her. Don’t leave behind regrets.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“But Tatianna said you were doing villain things!” Lyssa dipped under
Evie’s arms and ran for Trystan. “I have to observe!”
Sage let out a small growl and stomped her boot. “Lyssa, that is absurd.
Go inside. Now!”
Trystan whistled low. “Didn’t you just say the same thing, Sage?”
Sage planted her hands on her hips, betrayal gleaming in her eyes. “Shall
I test my villainy on you?”
“If it’ll end this faster, have at it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“And finally, and certainly most enjoyable, was watching his best friend
—The Villain—a man who Alexander had never thought would open up his
cold, closed off-heart, fall truly, deeply, and wildly in love with Evie Sage.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain

“The scarf Evie had given him at their fateful first meeting sat in Trystan’s
hands, and Alexander watched with a painful sympathy as Trystan brought
the scarf up to his face and closed his eyes.
It was too sad even for a cursed frog to watch.
Alexander Kingsley turned his attention to the floor while his friend
mourned a fate that Alexander swore he could prevent.
If only he were human enough to stop it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Accomplice to the Villain